They keep reviving old plays and musicals. What's up with that?

It may not be so bad but it's the same damn shows over and over.

Just guessing I have no idea how it works. But it's always follow the money...........

as a live action version of Sleeping Beauty. Plus, Snow White & the Huntsman did pretty well, too, I think.

to play Belle.

Emma Watson is the right choice. Both smart and beautiful.

Love that movie! I'd see the new one.

Ron Perlman comes to mind, but he was in the TV show of that name so...Javier Bardem maybe?

The boy who did About a Boy.

He's not all that big tho. What would be cool...get this guy to be the prince in human form, one of these big scary fuckers (Samuel L. Jackson would be a LOT of fun as the Beast, and since it's going to be a makeup role anyway his ethnicity won't be an issue) to be the prince in beast form, and dissolve between the two when he goes into and out of being the Beast.

That's fine when he's in full makeup, but what happens when the spell is broken?

the suspension of disbelief if they didn't recognize the voice of the 40 plus year old beast.

From watching the animated version lots of times, before the spell he was a normal-size teenage boy. When the spell was cast he turned into a huge being with a much deeper voice. When it was broken he turned back into a normal-size man with a high tenor voice.

In animation you can do anything. In live action that basically demands two actors.

While we're at it, why not cast Helen Mirren in the role of Belle?

Or cast a young male actor opposite the young female actor?

Why do we immediately rush to cast a much older male opposite a much younger woman?

The prince AS a prince...that's got to be a young guy.

The prince as the Beast...I got the impression that in addition to the hair, claws and extra weight, the witch threw about a hundred extra years on him.

But not too beastly.

I love that movie.